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2022 Preston County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Preston County, WV went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 161K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 852nd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Preston County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 6, 2022 13:15 | October 6, 2022 20:45 | 7h 30m | 2,968 | 3,469 |
| 2 | October 3, 2022 12:30 | October 3, 2022 19:15 | 6h 45m | 2,379 | 9,548 |
| 3 | November 21, 2022 15:30 | November 21, 2022 18:45 | 3h 15m | 1,976 | 6,033 |
| 4 | December 15, 2022 10:00 | December 18, 2022 16:15 | 3d 6h | 1,969 | 8,643 |
| 5 | June 16, 2022 21:45 | June 18, 2022 05:00 | 1d 7h | 1,721 | 5,263 |
| 6 | October 14, 2022 02:00 | October 14, 2022 08:00 | 6h | 1,712 | 1,750 |
| 7 | July 12, 2022 11:30 | July 14, 2022 16:00 | 2d 4h | 1,620 | 18K |
| 8 | July 23, 2022 19:15 | July 24, 2022 19:30 | 1d | 1,466 | 4,982 |
| 9 | June 22, 2022 21:30 | June 24, 2022 20:30 | 1d 23h | 1,345 | 12K |
| 10 | August 23, 2022 21:00 | August 23, 2022 22:00 | 1h | 1,318 | 1,263 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 65 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Preston County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monongahela Power Co | 2022 | 11.8 hrs | 2.55 | 6.8 hrs | 2.05 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 100% of West Virginia's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,977 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Preston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Preston County, WV annual power outage report, 2022, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2022/west-virginia/preston-county